Sometimes you think certain details are things that only you would notice, so it's a great thing to feel like you're not by yourself and people understand where you're coming from.

When you feel totally alone in your thoughts and feelings, there's someone out there who is going through what you went through, even if it's the strangest, weirdest thing you could think of.

Sometimes I listen to music and I wonder how did they get certain sounds.

You have to be quite brave to write about something that you honestly feel and think.

I was just thinking about my own natural way of one-night stands: always wanting to be more attached to something. I'm not very good at detaching myself.

I have a cousin called Flirta D who was big in the grime world, which made me really cool at school. 'Flirta D's your cousin?' 'Yeah, buddy.' 'He must be a millionaire!'

It is better to be nonjudgmental. Pure love is always unconditional.

Keep being crazy. Keep being loud. Be yourself. Because the only thing you have in your life is yourself and your friends.

Learning to love back is the hardest part of being alive.

The pleasure that attaches to the artistic life comes in imagining what we might do as opposed to acknowledging what we have done.

I was so afraid of upsetting people, and not being liked for saying something that was not to everyone's taste.

I am confident that the day is not far distant when the light of peace shine again.

With any level of success you get some non-musical things that come along - money, ego - and it's easy to lose your perspective and get off doing what you did to get there.

I adore Madonna. She reinvents herself like no one else.

If anyone has conducted a Beethoven performance, and then doesn't have to go to an osteopath, then there's something wrong.

Bob Dylan emerged from nowhere, like an alien. And that was just the start.